Community Corner
Panel: Slavery, Compensation, Reparations
The Wellesley College Africana Studies Department convenes specialists in the field to discuss slavery and demands for reparations.
Specialists in the field convene to discuss British slavery, its impact upon the making of the Industrial Revolution, and the monies awarded to British slaveholders after British slavery ended in 1833. Panelists will examine the current demand by heads of state of 15 Caribbean nations for reparations from Europe for the enduring suffering inflicted by the European slave trade upon the people in the Caribbean.
Craig Murphy, the M. Margaret Ball Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, is joined by Sr Hilary Beckles, Principal and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (Barbados); Nicholas Draper of the University College London; Eric Graham, University of Edinburgh; William Pettigrew, Unversity of Kent; and Louis Lee Sing, former mayor of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
